Thoughts and Prayers
Catholic Priestly fears
Catatonic ever-quibbling lawmakers
Patriotic civilian protester peers

Thoughts and Prayers
Wars for years
Weapons makers Gaza Palooza
Civilian family tears

Thoughts and Prayers
Consumer arrears
Wall Street Financial gambling
Tax-breaks/subsidies/ giveaways for corporations and billionaires

Thoughts and Prayers

Black and Brown ghetto gang crime re-appears

Wrapped culturally strong man-boys

Police vigilantism

Visceral state-enforced anti-activism

Copper Rippers” unapologetically leer

Root cause effects to cheer

Unconstitutional Stop and Frisk!

Amidst the socially and economically atomized

Rat mice and cockroach infested

Rented poor working class

Social programs stripped to austere

More government money invested for prison than school chairs

ICE!

Heated masked undocumented immigrant police?

New Gestapo on the city streets?

Federal over-reach

New Emperor state military commandeer

Thoughts and Prayers

Assault Rifle Gunman madman/child appears!

Bloodied School children!
Cry frightened with fear

Thoughts and Prayers

Medicare For All?

The “Socialist radical plan” will make our cupboards bare!

Who dare states that entrepreneurial doctors and dentists need support providing citizens Health Care?

The Trillion-dollar twenty-year disaster in Afghanistan?

Let us move on with the sale of more military hardware!

The money will be legitimized by the Congress to the quick!

The childrens” lives?

Who in tar nation cares?

We support the financing of the gunware!

The politicians cry again for ever-more vigilant police

The building of violence soaked garish prisons as the tools

For the taming of the Domestic Square

The Master of the Universe governs as it relates to imperialistic exploits in foreign affairs!

Always in Congressional concurrence of a villain

Technologically advanced China!

To forswear

Buy the bye!

The blessed antidote
The people have I swear

Another year

All together now for the Billionaire space class

Hedge fund

Wall Street

Corporate CEOS

Hollywood and television actors’ fawning adoring corporate-advertised cheer!

Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers
Thoughts and Prayers!

 

The Boogeymen are coming
They will wipe out your towns!
This is no laughing matter
This Central American
Caravan of brown frowns
Hold onto your children
We shall not yield nay even one inch
To these salacious spectres
From The Evil Abyss
Conjured up by The Grinch
Batten down the hatches!
Do not dare chance even one peep!
We will send out our loyal soldiers
By plane, tank, and jeep
We must stand patriotic
For the Red White and Blue
Come Election Day!
Vote for the Red Elephant in the booth
All your fears will be soothed!
We will alleviate this menace
And disappear the uncouth!

 

Open communication on social media with the members is a testament to our commitment and character in forging a stronger union, not only in the traditional sense, but also in utilizing the new technologies for advocacy, unity, activism and promoting solidarity with workers everywhere who are being crushed in the Free Market economy.

An open tent for members to democratically have their voices heard promotes innovation, transparency and solidarity which in turn lets them feel that their importance as union members is not just based on their work history: Their union hall not just some temp agency, where they can go to find work, but also a place to enhance their civic duty and solidarity to their fellow members, family, and communities to help forge a better path for all workers.

Open communication and collaboration is a much better system than a closed off, non-transparent, non-activist, non-innovative, top down central bureaucratic system; which only sees workers as pegs to be filled in contractors holes whenever and however they need them.

We have entered a new era of communications, technology, and transparency; and the time is now to engage in a new type of thinking.

A thinking that can marshall the forces of the union workers to promote collaboration; the gathering and filtering of new ideas and strategies to promote a healthy activism to better prepare ourselves to make the case to the general public why we are the best defense against the new (since the Reagan years) fundamentalist Free Market capitalism.

All of our leaders should be using the new social media platform to enhance our reputation and standing in the broader communities; to promote activism and equal rights and justice for all workers (after all is this not what a Labor Leader is, not just someone who takes phone calls and hands out jobs, a temp clerk can fill that position).

With the new social media there is no excuse for Labor Leaders to be silent.

With the Free Market economy wreaking havoc on American workers (indeed, workers around the world) and statistics steadily coming out showing rampant inequality; with the 1% gaining a lion’s share of the gains while workers earnings remain stagnant, coinciding with the advances of the new social media platforms which allow for far more avenues to communicate with the general public and make the moral case for unions; to be rendered silent in the face of such mounting evidence and vast new ways of communication is to be complicit in the ongoing rape and pillaging of the American working class by Big Rich and Big Business; especially for so-called “Labor Leaders” who are elected and PAID accordingly; presumably to advocate and agitate in defense of and in solidarity with the well-being of their workers.

The shift to a more inclusive union, which mirrors the new ongoing social media platforms, which have rendered old modes of communication and hierarchy obsolete, cumbersome, non-transparent and ineffective needs to be undertaken.

By releasing ourselves from the vestiges of the old and keeping the very best of their educated instruction; Integrating in the new ideas, technologies, communications, collaborations, and culture, we can forge a much stronger and deeper solidarity with all of our members and the general public.
Not just focusing on our narrow interests, such as solely plugging in workers to meet contractors needs in the field, but on our common strengths as union members making the moral case for workers rights and economic fairness for all ordinary Americans in our communities and the general public.

Reminding and educating American citizens on the history of unions as a bulwark against the monied interests; the many advances that we have forged for the working class from previous labor struggles.

Most of all with a renewed commitment to excellence and principles, utilizing the new data driven technologies and social media technologies and culture, opening up the closed bureaucratic system to a more transparent and inclusive union which encourages making decisions in collaboration with its workers and appears literally, not just figuratively, as a union that is doggedly in pursuit of economic, social and political justice for workers everywhere.

Let us make The Appeal!

 

There was a girl
A very young and pretty girl
I admired her from afar
I wanted to enter into her World

Then one day
A very fine and lovely day
I talked with her
And walked with her
Around East Elmhurst way

I came to see
That she was very different
Than me
She spoke in Spanish
We used a translation machine

We fell in love
The very thing you dream it of
She believed in me
And made me see the possibilities
She helped me to rise above

And now it seems
We have come to our 17th Wedding Anniversary
My darling Eva Cecilia Castillo Luna-Reith
There is no place I would rather be
Than right next to you
My Love

Who cares about some sexual assault scheme?
If it goes against my team
I care about the Lady!
No need for an FBI investigation
Nor Mr. Judge to testify
As the evidence is lean
Why do we need a professional sleuth?
When we aver
It is a Democratic Party
Supreme Court coup!
Yet let me
Reiterate!
I have the utmost civic concern!
For what that woman’s testimony means!

Donald Trump and Charlie Brown Media Presents:
Trumpie Brown

That Trumpie Brown

Oh He’s a Clown (El Payaso)

That (Orange-Haired) Cheeto

Trumpie Brown

Fake News! Conspiracy Theories! Lies!

Hillary Clinton!
Russian Spies!
The New York Times!

Former National Security Adviser Flynn, Former Campaign Manager Manafort, The Pied Papadoulos

All the Administration’s Corruption, Money-Laundering and Political Crimes!

Why is Everybody Always Picking On Me?

P.S. – Forget about that Guiliani miss-direction
We shalt never answer any of Special Investigator Mueller’s questions!

Rather we will play this Trumpie Brown song on a loony loop
Presented by a Trump Supporter Mime
Wearing a Red MAGA Hat
And a shirt that reads:
Collusion is not a crime!

Undocumented Immigrants are exploited

By American companies

And the economic well-to-do

Who extract their toiling labor

At a cheap cost

As it provides a Free Market Avenue

For wealth to accrue

Then they turn around “graciously”

And vote for laws

To criminalize them

Imprison their children

A political decision

These Toiling Workers

Non-Labor Rights

Modern Day Slaves

For having the audacity

To advocate for a level playing field

Whilst under the economic boot

Broken Wings

Take me away

To yonder skies

Of yesterday

The thrilling spirit

Felt

Gliding in the air

Invokes my courage

Banishes my fear

Oh how I long

To soar away from this

Grief

Of Broken Wings

And shattered belief

If I must live on rooted land

With grounded dreams

Of stretched wingspans

I shalt endeavor

To help others

Fly

Before the final breath

The sweet bye and bye

In this way

I can rebuild the core

And give my

Broken Wings

A Fledgling Chance

To Soar

Once More

Drunks

Stay in Funks

No longer look like Hunks

Use Sidewalks for Bunks

Get beaten up by Punks

And though they have

Lost it All

They’ll be in the Saloon/ Bodega

Tomorrow

Looking for some alcohol

How many acquaintances?
Of past refrain
Have littered on
My creative reign
By way of moral failings
By which they suppose I deign
Mine fluent
Most intimate thoughts
Infamy!
Create enemies of erstwhile “friends”